WORDS OF TOLERANCE FROM THE MOUTHS OF BIGOTS
Oneal, James
Words of Tolerance from the Mouth of Bigots Sins of Religious, Political and Social Prejudice Abound In Camps of Both Democrats and Republicans By James Oneal ' I 'tilt extensive religious...
...The statement by the Rev...
...We have seen strikes where workers of a number of religious faiths and some with no religious convictions at all have stood together as a <-lass and won...
...the other states but e?en hi Virginia Jot...
...Hollister For Thomas NEW YORK, N. Y.-JCarol Hollister, pianist and composer...
...It Is typical...
...Publisher to the Holy See," brought out a volume of Brownson's essays...
...He flaunts bis red flag and openly preaches his doctrines...
...Progress Builders At Work ROSWELL, New Mexico.—The Progress Builders of America announce that they have the Socialist state ticket all ready for filing...
...Under the state law separate filing is necessary In each county...
...Occasionally there was an utterance that was startling...
...Miss Stephen in Maine LIVERMORE FALLS...
...While the Klan was using the weapons stolen from the K of C. arsenal the two "lecturers" found another opportunity...
...He is more dangerous than cholera or small pox—yes, he is the mad dog of society, and should be silenced II need be by a bullet...
...This view was expressed not in one article...
...Albert C. Ritchie and Sen...
...They came out of their retreat and began to bawl about -Americanism against Bolshevism...
...Lilith Wilson, member of the National Women's Committee of the Socialist Party, suffered a painful accident last week...
...and there Is no obedience where there Is no authority to enjoin it...
...One thousand of the National Platform are being mailed to the voters...
...What Is striking a boat this dJaeasaion is the indignation of the Democrats...
...Kentucky Is Filed MAYFIELD, Ky.—John L. Wrather reports the filing of the Socialist petitions...
...the first and iast lesson to the people, individually or collectively Is, OBEY...
...He became the "escaped Socialist" who spent the remaining years by lecturing on the horrors of the Socialist convent...
...4th by Frank R. Crosswaith for tb» Socialists...
...how many victims of Know-Nothing mobs suffered because of the pron>BSJBlOSl offered by Brownson...
...Silver was young, idealistic, loyal to the best traditions of labor and Socialism...
...Order today, from The New Leader, 7 East 15th Street, New York City...
...The first talk will' be given at 8:30 o'clock Sunday evening, Oct...
...Ours is the Gibraltar District of Democracy in Kentucky and yet many life long Democrats will not vote for Smith...
...James, H. Maurer, will deliver an address in I. O. O. F. Hall...
...In addition, they are mailing out 200 letters per week to individuals...
...14th, by Attorney Edward A. Johnson, Republican candidate for Congress...
...Moreover, the old stuff which had done service against Jefferson, Paine, Garrison, Phillips, Margaret Fuller, Lincoln and, later the Socialists, was again revamped for use against Mexico and its responsible officials...
...He finally broke down and in a written statement handed to Mayor Stump admitted graft to the amount of $1,600...
...ferson snd Madison were suspected «( being emissaries of this Satanic ssajafj In New Knglanl it required some "trailai In some states to effect separation...
...There was the spectacle of Tammany Congressmen howling for American intervention In a purely domestic problem la Mexico...
...Jewish snd Atheist capitalists united in the same corporation to beat a strike...
...PHILADELPHIA Pa.—After appearing before the executive committee of the Socialist Party, F. Harrison Hough so impressed the members that they voted Unanimously to finance a Thornas-DuBoia meeting to be held here on the afternoon of Oct...
...The local dally printed the official ballot recently for the first time...
...Tom Paine, Garrison, Phillips, Margaret Fuller and even Lincoln had to meet the same mud batteries...
...Jefferson...
...Taking advantage of his experience, with the automobile workers, he is planning a number of noon hour meetings at shops where the crowds are thickest...
...17th, the Hebrew Butcher Workers Union will hold a memorial meeting in memory of the murdered butcher worker, Harry Silver, at Beethoven Hall, 210 East 5th street...
...Mayor Stump and James H. Maurer, head of the finance department, began an investigation and the open trail they discovered led direct to Stocker...
...25 cents per set...
...This Incitement to violence against a political party which had won legal recognition by many years of educational work certainly does not Indicate thai "bigotry" is the exclusive possession of one side in the wars of the Godly...
...The whole of this mesa had its origin in any years before the appearance of Paine and Jefferson and much of It may be found In the religious controversies following the Reformation...
...Good Meeting in Amesbury Socialists of Amesbury, Mass., held a well attended rally on Market Square on Oct...
...Supply Is limited...
...This Campaign In Cartoons...
...thing else than women, and rasa raaaa that no home can be founded with thssT* Them Is even reference to "bestial sat sic" hot how music can be "bsettar a not explained "The flight from pans*, hood and the hatred tor the Chrktaa home mark, the triumph of Gauss saTste fang...
...trol meeting in Town Hall, an tntjoag that provoked some editorial comment ta the local dallies...
...DuBois and Thomas in Phils...
...L. B. Cofan and A. H Kaliah, students at Harvard, assisted by presiding and making short talks...
...We have fought these prejudices and always will...
...The two "lecturers" of the Knights of Oolmnhns peddled this stuff all over the United States for years, applying it to the Socialists with some trimmings to suit the modern period, it was a wholesals propaganda of bigotry and it continued till the rise of the Ku Klux Klan following the end of the World War...
...In the thirties and the forties books were printed purporting to be the experiences of "escaped nuns" and this literature served to Inflame prejudice against Catholics...
...The "religious issue" Is a red herring for the working class...
...Here is the real line of demarcat'-sn In society...
...They assume that they alone exhibit that "tolerance" for which they plead in pontics...
...The latter protested his innocence in spite of convincing evidence of fraud...
...It declares that instruction given children in Mexican schools "is such that a growing number of young girls are ruined every year...
...The most distinguished Catnjlic layman in this country was Orestes A. Brownson who died th 1876 at the age of 73...
...The Catholic politicians in office in New England use the governing powers for the same purpose against workers of their own faith...
...F. Diet...
...In April, 1849, he also wrote: "In the temporal order, again, the authority claimed and exercised by the church is nothing but the assertion over the state of the Divine sovereignty, which ..she represents, or the subjection of the prince to the Law of God, In his character of nrince as well as in his character of man...
...Silver was a Socialist and labor man who was murdered by enemies of labor, COMMUNIST GANGSTERS, it is charged...
...Stocker came under suspicion a few weeks ago when a pay check of mysterious character turned up...
...ins this period and what he wrote waa quoted over and over again by the KnowNothing- press...
...n earth, without rebellion against the Divine majesty, and robbing man of his rights...
...Butcher Union to Hold Memorial Meeting for Harry Silver on Oct...
...In the Ideal Thaatet eat...
...We srs stupid to do what they are wise not to do...
...Words of Tolerance from the Mouth of Bigots Sins of Religious, Political and Social Prejudice Abound In Camps of Both Democrats and Republicans By James Oneal ' I 'tilt extensive religious prejudices which out across (ha caarpeign of the two conservative parties fully Justify the position which the Socialist an* Labor movement has taken in this and all other countries...
...Church authorities did not interfere and Brownson was intimate with the leading prelates of the church...
...SO cents by mall...
...His power is an acuta...
...The Reman Catholic religion assumes, ps its point of deDarture, that It is instituted not to be taken care of by the* people, but to take care of the people...
...on the 28th by Richard B. Moore for the Communists, and on Nov...
...Political Talks at Harrison Church A series of four political talks will be given at the Hubert Harrison Memorial Church...
...Its candidates are entitled to the votes of intelligent people on this question ss they are on every other question involved in the present campaign...
...This is especially teas of men lake Father Ryan and Father McOowan...
...But it may be said that this was s passing phase of American ecrieslaettral and political history and that it was not depeated...
...Connecticut and Massachusetts* one «jg come across wails of clerics who vert kepi by taxation tha* are very similar to tbj walls found In this K. of C. paambkjt against Mexico...
...A large audience is expected...
...what we advocate is her supremacy as the teacher and guardian of the law of God,—as the supreme court, which must be recognized and submitted to as such by the state, and whose decisions cannot be disregaided, whose prerogatives cannot be abridged or usurped by any P°w.er...
...The rise of Russian Bolshevism was a God-send to them...
...He declared that members of organized labor should not support the candidate of the two major parties but to vote for Socialist candidates, who are known to be reliable friends of labor...
...are made on the assumption that some of their allies have no sins to account far and that the "bigotry • is all on the other aide...
...Reading Socialists Unearth Payroll Padding Graft (By a Haw loadsr Oornsponoant) READING, Pa.—The Socialist administration of Reading has uncovered graft by a public official who is a survivor of a number of old party administrations, Clarence M. Stacker, city highway toreman, is accused of collecting wages of "dead men" and cashing ¦checks made out in their names...
...This meeting will be both a MEMORIAL meeting for a fine comrade, and at the same time a "PROTEST against gangsterism...
...Of the tnirtecu eaZ nies nine had some form of stats asaaeft of religion...
...The movement has held that religious creeds should have no place in It...
...AO this by way of introduction to a consideration of that "bigotry" which is aa prominent in the politics of the two capitalist partter today...
...Maurer is of the opinion that 15,000 is nearer the real sum that disappeared...
...Is the special custodian of "Americanism.** Talis sans Toward ataste* The next phase of K of O. bigotry appeared when the church question ta Maodco assumed an acute phase...
...Nothing Is missing from this propaaav da...
...There is a likelihood that he will remain in Detroit to assist in bulldng up a permanent organization after Election...
...On both sides this "bigotry" has served only the politicians and has injured the workers of all lalths and no faiths...
...Those who live on our labor never divide on religious lines...
...Governor Smith and his leading organ, the New York World, are proud of his candor in discusing thD question and "dragging it out into the light...
...An Early Catholic Bigot Now let us turn to the Democratic provocations wviich run through all our history since the thirties...
...In 193d the Supreme Council of the Knights of Columbus Issued a pamphlet bearing the title, "Mexico: Bolshevism the Menace...
...18 cartoons by Art Younr, all 10i/2 by 12 Vi Indies...
...Georgia Is Filed ATLANTA, Ga.—The names of Socialist electors have been filed with the Secretary of State...
...In Virginia the ssparastej was affected easily compared with scrota...
...not to be governed by them, but to govern them...
...The two "lecturers" disappeared from the field as the fire had become too hot for them...
...We have seen Cothollc, Protestant...
...The following quotation from Brownson's Review of October, 1845, is not exceptional...
...A discussion follows each talk...
...In the year 1903 a member of the Socialist Party left it and Joined the church and the Knights of Columbus...
...They And 4t convenient to ignore the provocations In their own house which have contributed to the "bigotry" in the other...
...The party of thi Raskobs sal Tammany all is absurd when it complsini of "bigotry...
...However, they are s minority,—* growing minority, 1st us hope...
...Rowan Busy in Detroit DETROIT, Mich.—Arthur E. Rowan in conjunction with the local comrades is taking up Socialist organization work in this city...
...The K. of c. Leetarsrs v The message of this gentleman and another one who Joined him- is interesting...
...Destruction of the family, race amalgamation, promiscuous relations between the sexes, destruction of all private property, dethronement of Ood and worship of the Ood of Reason and abolition of attributed to these men...
...17 Wednesday evening Oct...
...Reduced rates .for ten or more sets...
...He writes, "Be assured that there are a good many real Socialists In this state who are mating votes and comrades by their enthusiasm in and out of season...
...Labor unity can be achieved In nc other way...
...The next big event was the Thomas meeting...
...Communist tactics and bloodshed in our movement...
...In a beautiful folio...
...Here it is only fair to state that there sss smb in the StsaWb to whom this sort of thing does not appeal...
...John L. Belford of the Church of the Nativity, Brooklyn, in his weekly publication, the "Nativity Mentor," in May, 1912, may be recalled in relation to the discussion of "bigotry...
...Comrade Wrather writes, "I am at your service for our cause until November 6 and from then on until we win . . . Hoover and Smith men are flooding the country with campaign bunk and men and women speakers, or rather barnstormers...
...First, Jet us say, we are not opposed to Governor Smith because he Is a Catholic or to Hoover because he is a Quaker...
...The Progress Builders who have for their motto, "Workers of the World Unite, You Have Nothing to Lose But Your Chains, You Have a World to Gain...
...Later be spoke from the City Hall steps to an audience in the public plaia discussing the observations of Gov...
...I believe our platform would win the farmers...
...Fundamentally th* clerical politician performs his antics for the classes that live on the labor of tta working class...
...When the worker enters the union or his labor party he is required to leave his religious or anti-religious beliefs outside the door with his rubbers...
...While engaged in the campaign she broke her ankle while stepping from an automobile...
...Brownson changed th» name of his Boston Quarterly Review to Brownson's Review and devcted it to a militant exposition of Catholicism...
...5 with Alfred Baker Lewis as the speaker...
...Socialist candidate for U. S. Senator from Maryland, was the principal speaker at the last meeting of the Allegheny Trades' Council...
...The Klan crusaders took over this Knights of Columbus propaganda against Socialists and applied it, with some variations, to the K. of C. and the whole body of Catholic people themselves...
...Both the Negro and white leaders have enthusiastically promised to assist in making the meeting a huge success...
...these views of Brownson or the reaction which they provoked...
...It muddles everything...
...William Cabell Bruce on Al Smith's views on water power and other public utilities...
...Toole in Cumberland CUMBERLAND, Md.—William A Toole...
...We know the force of the word, and we mean it...
...The reader who win go bask ta ear own revolutionary period when the ss*s> lutionary fathers were separating Oteoaa and State win find similar firm's tnti w Protestant clerics...
...For more than twenty years them has slao been s propaganda carried on by the Knights of Columbus against the Socialist movement, a propaganda which has sunk to the lowest of the dirty tricks of the worst bigotry...
...If the church be the Divinely commissioned teacher and guardian of that law, as she certainly is, the same subjection to her must be conceded . . . Take away from the subjection of the state of God, and yoa take away the reason of the subjection of the subject to the state . . . We do not advocate—far from it—the notion that the church must administer the civil government...
...In passing we might mention the taterference by Cardinal O'Conneli in Baton against the child labor saaenassa) and the request by Cardinal Hayes a New York a few years ago that the potts, department should prohibit a birth ass...
...Seven leading ministers have promised to urge their members to attend Editor Rhoades of the "Philadelphia Tribune" will give his editorial support...
...What then happened is worthy of being dramatised as comic opera...
...One might accept this explanation as a plausible one were it not for another incident In the year 1901 when the A. P. A. movement was declining in politics the Catholic publishing firm of P. J. Kenedy...
...He was in big demand as a lecturer and on the platform he also expressed the same views...
...He had been one of the most brilliant radicals of the thirties and early forties but turned Catholic in 1844 and became a pro-slavery Democrat in politics...
...Hough is returning to Detroit to continue his good work there...
...As Socialists aU that we ask of our representatives is whether they accept our program and whether they will fight for the working class and general human welfare...
...Local Socialists were pleased to have Comrades...
...The publishers did not print it sooner for fear of attending "our court house bosses...
...Whether another edition has been published since 1901 I do not know but the reprint of these essays in that year shows that the dominant element In the church accepted the despotic views of Brownson...
...Which was "bigotry...
...Their protest...
...Plans are being made for a hall really soon...
...Considered in perspective, the "bigotry" of clerics Is not as one side and if we are to consider it at all it should be considered in all la mpects...
...Native Americanism was becoming rife and anti-Catholic mobs ran riot in eastern cities...
...They are making further investigations...
...He insisted on the supremacy of the church and the necessity of obedience to its mandates by public officials and the people in general...
...He will be followed on the 21st by Henri W. Shields for the Democrats...
...He is selling literature, obtaining subscriptions for the New Leader, arranging meetings and sending articles on the campaign to the newspapers...
...dren give dances which, in the kssaaat of decency," cannot be described, ^sw...
...149 West 136fh street, of which Comrade Ethelred Brown Is the pastor...
...His great point of attack is religion...
...The Protestant textile capitalists of the South hate organization of workers sad use the police powers to break up union meetings and to crush strikes...
...Stump and Maurer are not satisfied that this amount represents the whole of the graft pocketed by Stocker...
...Socialists are Interested in seeing that workers of all faiths should remain united in determined opposition to the clerics of all persuasions who fish in the troubled waters of politics for the aggrandisement of their own sects...
...That the prince or civil power is subject to the law of God, no man who admits Christianity at all dares question...
...over, "women are ted to become «ss...
...It runs through all his writings...
...They must have a master The word must be spoken...
...The Socialist Party Is clean on this question...
...Those who are possessed by It cannot think and thinking is essential to win power...
...AH the old stage properties woe trotted oat and need as the new crusade, the burden of the^new gospel being that the K. of C. stood as a rock against the savage hordes of "Bolshevism and Socialism" and that the K ofc...
...We Socialists have nominated men and women of a variety of religious and non-religious views for office In Milwaukee the Socialists work and hope to elect a Catholic to Congress as a* Socialist comrade of Victor L. Bergc...
...Can one imagine any more provocative and "bigoted" production than these essays...
...This organization will stand the expense of filing the ticket...
...The two local papers gave a good account of the meeting, one paper having nearly a column writeup...
...Real progress is being made in the Pine Tree state...
...This was his right but with it he expounded a system of ecclesiastical politics which in large measure contributed to the Native Americanism and later Know-Nothlng movement...
...eruote our expression.—THE PEOPLE MUST HAVE A MASTER (capitals in the original) . . . hoid it up in glaring capitals, to excite the unthinking and unreasoning multitude . . . We repeat, the religion which is to answer our purre must be above the people, and able COMMAND them...
...is busy preparing the cards in preparation for the "sticker" campaign, which will place the Socialist ticket before the voters in this state...
...Our sole test Is whether candidates represent a program of social and Industrial democracy and the liberation of the working class from want and the fear of want...
...Her inactivity during the rest of the campaign is a serious loss to the Socialists...
...On Oct U the Socialist vice-presidential candidate...
...Very well, but the light does not play upon other aspects of this "bigotry" and as this is a season for candor we will supply the omission...
...They are contemplating sending out A. C. Wickham and A. D. West on a three weeks' speaking and singing tour through the eastern half of New Mexico and West Texas, where many old time Socialists reside...
...They have been sending out literature as fast as they receive it...
...Sticker Drive In Louisiana LAKE CHARLES, La.—W...
...Joins the Writers and Artists' Committee for Thomas and Maurer offers his services to help actively In the election of the Socialist candidates for president and vice-president...
...There seems to be no law to suppress or control him...
...The above quotations are taken from this volume which bears the title, "Essays and Reviews Chiefly on Theology, Politics, and Socialism...
...T. F. Brough is financial secretary of the Socialist Club...
...The man who votes Democratic to "rebuke bigotry" Is certainly as easily taken In as the man who vows Republican for this reason...
...Here Is what the good father said: "The Socialist Is busy...
...Declaim as you will...
...The r-cord shows that many of the Democratic partisans of the North have been just as guilty and Just as intolerant as the others in the South...
...Me.—Good Socialist sentiment is being stirred up by Wendell F. Farrlngton and other comrades...
...Mrs...
...Among the speakers at this meeting will be: B. C. Vladeck, Morris Finestone, Morris Sigman, Abraham L Shiplacoff, Isidore Corn, Abraham Becherman and Max Zaritsky...
...Brownson was a prominent figure durLAUGH WITH ART YOUNG Now out...
...The first lesson to the child is, obey...
...One may also ask...
...Brownson was an active Democrat and he was a frequent contributor to the Democratic Review...
...It was an upsurge of ecclestiasttcal feeling that certainly appears strange In those who denounce "bigotry...
...Their paper "The Progress Builder," has a circulation of 3,000...
...If their own skirts were clean they would have a good ease but they have na such ease...
...Father Batterer* Taeerastt Was* Later provocations have been offered by this side and the Socialist movemeui ta this couuUy has boon a target for the dsrieal mod batteries, This antlSoeleaet crusade was ssawntislly political in character although generally disguised in terms of piety...
...All the old stuff Is there...
...We would be opposed to them no matter what their religlus or anti-religious views might be...
...menace to our city...
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